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AndSunGorilla:
Largerbeer was good too, but he spent a very short time. His team really played well if not for Yakubu and Kaita who decided to show their own craze

But make we tell ourselves the truth, the NFF can't afford a top quality coach now. As for me, we can find a young low budget coach ready to build his cv. Like when Renard was still coaching Zambia, right now, we no fit afford am.

didn’t mention Lager cos I feel his time was too short. we can appoint upcoming brilliant young foreign coaches like you said we can also appoint the best local coaches and not clueless exinternationals, Kadiri Ikhana at the height of his fame should have been made the national team coach but we had clueless coaches like Chukwu and Eguavoen. Amodu aside we’ve never appointed a proper local coach.

Tunisia have been very impressive, I hope they get something from this game

Danielnino00:
You used two terms here "we" and "our team".
obviously you're referring to the team in general.. Their overall performance is poor which indicates a coaching problem... If these guys play like this ag their clubs, it would be understandable...But we all know at club level, they are decent...
Which of Rohr and Peserio have a pedigree of building a formidable team? They are just kow budget coaches Pinnick saw fit to appoint because they were recommended to him by Wenger and Mourinho...

I’ve been watching the Super eagles since the late 90s the only decent coaches we’ve had in that time are bonfree and keshi and that’s me being nice, how are we suppose to attain greatness?

Truidstar:
Na your guy na …. Eguavoen.

already retired by 98

Mujtahida:
That's the problem. Blackman wants results but he doesn't want to look at patterns, he doesn't want to study, he doesn't want put in the hard work. Just give him results.

But football has gone beyond cha cha. Watch that Saudi Arabian backline. Watch how they were disciplined and sturdy in holding that high defensive line you will see that it is not a matter of big heart.

passion, big heart, small heart, love of the country blablabla don’t win games a solid tactical plan does, don’t know when people will understand this

Ppogbae:
My prediction don cut

The passion that the Saudis exhibited today is something that Nigeria and African football desperately lacks. Whenever our team is pitted up against a giant, most times we already accept the fact that we'll fail and and this is reflected in our gameplay.

With KSA's win, I actually feel that the pressure on African teams has just been turned up by a 100. Asian football may be surpassing African football for good

passion don’t win games, solid tactical plan does and that’s what Saudi exhibited today

typicalgamer:
My point is that if it’s possible we should rotate and ur pool of players to see if that will help.

Because as things stand right now our current crop some inside don rotten we need new seeds na

Don’t forget age cheating. Some our boys that are 28 now fit don 32 normally.

We have no say about the coaches picks but these guys are not it


We only win matches everyone knows we can win, and struggle against a team that’s close to our caliber

ok, this your new crop where you wan go harvest them from since you don’t like European super stars

AndSunGorilla:
You are correct!!! And I think they won the next edition right, beating the Elephants.

yes, 2012

AndSunGorilla:
But coaching will make sure the right set of players start.coaching will make sure if some players are. Ot cutting it, other new ones are sought out. That is what I mean sir. Coaching will gather players, know their strengths and weakness and play to their strengths. In the days when we had okocha, kanu at their best, this same Herve Renard coached Zambia beat us at the ANC. This same Renard coached a Zambian team that beat one of the greatest Ivorian teams with Drogba, the Toure brothers at their prime sir. Coaching is very very important.

we played Renard’s Zambia in 2010 a game we won via PK but they were the better side that day

joelsteron:
This Saudi will dispossess and dominate the super eagles if we meet.

yeah, na everybody go beat super eagles

elyte89:
So what are Dey? World class?


Dey re even below average sef ...a team dt can’t hold on to d ball for more Dan 2-3minutes is piss poor ,when last have u seen eagles play transitional football from d back up to d front in d last 6-7years. Make una Dey whine una sef
A team wout football philosophy is rubbish

i think he’s talking about individual players and I think he’s correct but as a team we aren’t good enough

Blueelf:
I am tempted to think African football is under some curse

I really can't deal men.....

no curse, employ good coaches with wonderful administrators and planning it’s not hard at all

fabyom:
Africa has 10 or 9 slots for 2026 world cup. God keep us alive, I will cheer Super Eagles to victory!

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That Fernandes quote have been trending and it is fake, this is the world we live in people are too lazy to verify things on the internet. Even if you no verify am you suppose know he can’t say that, abi doesn’t he play for United wey dey chop beating anyhow again? Did Brazil not get walloped by Germany? Anybody can get beaten in football it’s not new

Pidginwhisper:
See what Nigerian football has been reduced to. We should just focus on playing the Minors. The fear factor is gone, the prestige is gone, all thanks to the mediocre in the name of players we’ve been. parading. Zero zeal, zero hunger, the bastards just want to showboat and sell their market on the pitch, they don’t care about the Nations pride. EndSars like revolution should take place to flush out the bastards in the NFF headquarters. We need our football back!!

he never said this, this is fake news

elyte89:
But Cameroon Ghana and Senegal have recorded d best outing so far.

94,98,2002,2010,2014 Cameroon have only one victory against Saudi Arabia, saw them play against Panama and the only reason it ended in a draw is because Panama didn’t take their chances. It’s not looking good for them but time will tell

elyte89:
I don’t get dis bad belle stuff for oda African countries participating at d World Cup instead of supporting dem for a better outcome

will my support make them win? I said what I think, since I’ve been supporting them what have they done? Traditionally Tunisia and Cameroon have always been the worst African teams at the World Cup. If I’ll have bad belle for anybody it should be Ghana but I even said I think they’ll perform decently

Mujtahida:
This analysis is just too simplistic as a diagnosis of the problem of our team.

Super Eagles is poor because 90 percent of the players are FB(in you people's mind, FB make up 90% of the team). What sort of nursery school thinking is this?
Ekong
Aina
Bassey
Iwobi
Aribo
Ebuehi
Maduka
Lookman
Moffi
Ajayi
Are FB players.

Moses Simon
Iheanacho
Osimhen
Ndidi
Onyeka
Chukwueze
Bonke
Onuachu
Uzoho
Shehu
Musa
Awaziem
Omeruo
Are the Nigerian born players.

On a given day the team is a fairly balanced mix of both FB and NB. Yet it is the FB who are responsible for our poor footballing fortunes?

So if the team is made up 100% Nigerian players, we will bounce back? I really do not understand this kind of simplistic almost naive narrative.

The one unwavering factor for inclusion in the national team is quality. Not whether you belong to any of the categories of FB or NB.

Fact however is that for many years we realized that owing to the regression of our local teams, our best players are those who ply their trade abroad and even at that it is just basic common sense that you pick your best players from those who play in the best clubs in Europe and elsewhere(if they are the best)

when we had only Nigerian born players we got to the World Cup semifinal and also won multiple Afcon titles

Tipping Canada to be the surprise team of the tournament while any of England, Belgium and Germany will be flop of the tournament. Best African team should be either Ghana or Morocco, Brazil or Argentina will win the tournament

AIG07:
THE BEST SUPER EAGLES PLAYER IS AT BEST AN ABOVE-AVERAGE PLAYER.

The supporters/fans needs to bring themselves to terms with this.

we have players to get us competitive but we lack very good coaches

zuchyblink:
except Victor moses,all our foreign borns are mediocres. They no reach Okocha,Kanu,Amunike, Osimehn,Oliseh,Ikpeba,Obagoal and Aghahowa

this your analogy no be am, Victor Moses aside how many foreign born have had a proper career with us? If Rohr used Aina consistently since 2017 I’m sure he’ll have a better career than Chidi Odiah for example.

daveP:
As Issa Hayatou bagged his 1.5m bribe and their Amos Adamu and co, a part of me want to believe Cameroon may see KO stages, even if that is highly possible. I want to give Hayatou the benefit of doubt that his beloved red and greens under Eto'o were part of his bribery deal with dem Qatar.

you mean Cameroon will qualify from a group that have Brazil Switzerland and Serbia? If them see one goal them try

do4luv14:
And what do you have to say about this, in relation to those that started,

Do the Eagles still need him

I think we don’t, a younger and more promising Alhassan can do the same thing if not better

If Cameroon see 1pt for this World Cup e go be by luck

TheSuperNerd:
The match is inconsequential for us and Osimhen is on a title charge with Napoli. That is important.

If he has a knock no matter how very minor, then he can be excused. No need dragging him to an inconsequential game. Let Moffi and the others have more chances to play.

When Qualifiers come back on next year and he is fit, he will be available.

there’s really no need to excuse bad behavior, Bassey is injured but still reported to camp

BannedLarge:
Another 424 this peseiro is actually Eguavoen older brother with his outdated formation. I expect Portugal to own the midfield. At this point, the worse that has happened already happened (No wc for us) we might as well hire a local coach that we can afford. Imagine paying $70,000 a month to be selecting out dated formation

there is no outdated formation in football. You just need the coach to have a proper grasp of the formation

TheSuperNerd:
Switzerland took it easy bruv. Noah Okafor is the best and most valuable player in the Austrian Bundesliga and he came from the bench for this friendly.

They took out 3 of their biggest names at halftime while Ghana kept their XI intact till the 62min and this was after Switzerland made more changes also 62mins.

Only Kudus and Partey didn't play. They had everyone else. And Wollacott is injured. He isn't better than Ati Zigi who kept goal today for them. Ati Zigi is a super regular in Switzerland.

Truth is Ghana took this friendly more seriously while Switzerland only took it as a tactical test run.

Truth is, It is habitual for African teams to almost always take Pre WC friendlies far more seriously than their European counterparts and secure wins to instill a false sense of readiness and confidence in fans only to get to the main event and falter hard.

it is habitual for African countries to loose disastrously just before World Cups, Nigeria lost to Netherlands in 98, Ghana did same in 2010. There are loads of such type of defeats by African teams

TheSuperNerd:
Switzerland took out Akanji, Embolo and Freuler at Halftime. That's 3 of the Swiss' star men. But Ghana made their first changes at 62mins.

Na dem carry this friendly for head.

Partey didn’t play sha

Ghana 2 up against Switzerland

Saudi Arabia vs Croatia, 32 minutes played and Saudi have been very impressive, harve renard has done a fine job

mostob:
Bro... But Aiyenugba was always subbed in then anytime the game entered penalty.

at Enyimba but by 2006 Enyeama was already very good at PK, don’t forget he saved two penalties against Tunisia